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Chapter 7: Harvest
In the past, when Meng Zhang's Divine Soul Left the Body, he would merely take a stroll around Taiyi Sect and not dare to stay outside for too long, mainly out of concern for his soul's safety. After returning with Divine Soul Return to the Body, he would always feel mentally fatigued and devoid of energy.
This time was different from before. After his Divine Soul Return to the Body, Meng Zhang felt surprisingly energetic and refreshed.
Refining Qi stage cultivators also needed sleep. However, compared to ordinary people, they required shorter rest periods to meet their needs.
Of course, Refining Qi cultivators could go without sleep for several days and nights without significant consequences, aside from feeling a bit tired.
Meng Zhang hadn't rested well these past few days and had stayed up all night studying yesterday. Even tonight, he had stayed up late. According to common sense, he should be fatigued and drowsy by now. However, after returning from the Trial Ground, he felt full of vitality, without a hint of sleepiness.
Meng Zhang attributed this unusual state to the cooling energy that flowed into his soul when he killed the ghosts in the Trial Ground, restoring his soul's strength.
It seemed that this time, after his Divine Soul Left the Body, his soul not only didn't deplete but was replenished instead, thanks to this energy.
Additionally, while fighting the ghosts, Meng Zhang felt that some information entered his soul. At the time, preoccupied with the battle, he had no time to pay attention to this new information.
Now, back in a safe place, he slowly started organizing this information.
After a while, having sorted through this information, Meng Zhang's face couldn't conceal his surprise.
For killing eight ghosts, he obtained eight pieces of information.
One piece of information was related to artifact refinement, about how to engrave a specific common magic tool restriction.
Another piece of information concerned alchemy, describing how to process a certain medicinal material to fully activate its medicinal properties.
Yet another piece of information was related to formations, explaining how to trigger greater killing power using a special technique.
There was also information on the Fire Arrow Technique, revealing a specific method to reduce mana consumption and increase the spell's power. The eight pieces of information encompassed various practical tips and precious knowledge.
In Meng Zhang's previous life, knowledge equated to power. In this cultivation world, knowledge related to cultivation was not only highly valuable but could also be directly converted into power. Among the hundred arts of cultivation, knowledge about alchemy, artifact refinement, formations, and other means of creating wealth were particularly hard to come by.
Now, Meng Zhang only needed to kill ghosts in the Trial Ground to gain rare and invaluable knowledge.
Moreover, Meng Zhang also thought that the ghosts he had encountered were only the lowest-level Ghosts. When he glanced at the numerous higher-level Ghosts below while in the air, he couldn't help but wonder what kind of rewards killing those higher-level Ghosts would bring. This idea filled Meng Zhang's heart with excitement.
Taiyi Sect had experienced numerous trials and tribulations, and its heritage had nearly been lost.
Yet now, Meng Zhang had discovered hope for recovering that heritage.
It turned out that the Trial Ground hid information about Taiyi Sect's complete heritage from its heyday, and it was all true.
If it weren't for the restriction that allowed entry to the heritage site only once a night, Meng Zhang could hardly suppress his eagerness to enter again.
Meng Zhang glanced outside the grand hall and saw that the sun was about to rise.
Ever since he embarked on the cultivation path, the diligent Meng Zhang never missed the morning class.
These past few days, due to the incidents within the sect, he had missed two morning classes, leaving him with an empty feeling in his heart.
Today, Meng Zhang didn't want to miss the morning class any longer.
Meng Zhang left the grand hall and directly jumped onto its rooftop, the highest point of Taiyi Sect. Facing east, he crossed his legs and prepared to welcome the rising sun.
Meng Zhang's practice, the Lesser Yang Qi Art, required him to absorb the earliest rays of the rising sun each morning, condensing them within his dantian for refinement. This was the way to cultivate the unique Lesser Yang True Qi, which possessed the effects of tempering the body and nurturing the soul, as well as the power of Yang Fire. It was truly a rare and superior cultivation technique.
Unfortunately, most of Taiyi Sect's heritage related to the Lesser Yang Qi Art had been lost. Not only were parts of the Refining Qi stage techniques missing, but some critical parts had also been lost long ago.
Meng Zhang's extraordinary comprehension allowed him to overcome numerous difficulties and cultivate a pure Lesser Yang True Qi using the incomplete and fragmented scripture he possessed.
After completing his morning practice on the rooftop, Meng Zhang returned to the grand hall. He took out paper and a pen, carefully recording the knowledge he gained the previous night.
Since childhood, Meng Zhang had possessed a photographic memory. He could memorize any amount of information perfectly.
He wasn't worried about forgetting this information; rather, he intended to preserve it for the sect. He recorded the knowledge to store it in Taiyi Sect's Hidden Scripture Pavilion, enhancing the sect's heritage and reserves.
If he obtained more information from the Trial Ground in the future, he could categorize and bind them into books.
After finishing these tasks, Meng Zhang was about to go to Daoist Clear Spirit to see if there was any assistance needed in the spirit field. At that moment, he felt that the sect-protecting great formation was activated again.
Taking out the Sect Master's seal he always carried with him, Meng Zhang gestured in front of him, and a light screen appeared.
Daoist True Spirit's disciple, Li Jie, returned to Taiyi Sect using his identity token, passing through the sect's great formation. However, Daoist True Spirit himself was nowhere to be seen.
As Li Jie hurried into Taiyi Sect, he ran directly towards the grand hall.
"Sect Master, something bad happened..." Even before reaching the hall's entrance, Li Jie shouted loudly.
Meng Zhang put away the Sect Master's seal and looked at Li Jie, reproaching him in a low voice, "Why are you panicking? Cultivators must remain calm and composed, still as calm water. Look at you, what are you doing?"
Li Jie ignored Meng Zhang's reprimand and continued shouting, "Sect Master, something bad happened. Master is surrounded by sand monsters!"
Meng Zhang was shocked to hear this. How could Zhen Ling (True Spirit) senior encounter such bad luck, getting surrounded by sand monsters?
In the Endless Sea of Sand, sand monsters were the natural enemies of all intelligent life and the biggest menace in the desert.
No one knew where sand monsters originated from or when they first appeared. They were just there whenever there were humans in the Endless Sea of Sand.
Sand monsters fervently loathed all intelligent creatures, especially humans. Whenever they emerged, they would rampage through human settlements, attacking and killing all cultivators they encountered.
When a large number of sand monsters gathered, they would actively assault the sects and families in the desert, attacking their mountain gates.
Throughout the history of the Endless Sea of Sand, countless sects and families had been destroyed due to sand monster attacks, their mountain gates breached.
Taiyi Sect, in its second rebuilding, fell to the onslaught of sand monsters.
Upon hearing about the appearance of sand monsters, Meng Zhang's first concern was not for Zhen Ling (True Spirit) senior's situation but rather the safety of Taiyi Sect. If sand monsters appeared nearby, Taiyi Sect would be in grave danger of being annihilated.
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